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WASHINGTON RACING DATES Longacres Allotted Fifty Days of Racing Eighteen Days Scheduled for Spokane Track. SEATTLE, Wash., April 4. Longacres will have fifty days of racing this summer, starting July 2 and ending September 18, it was announced by the Washington Horse Racing Commission Saturday afternoon. The schedule will consist of a five-day week, there being racing on Sundays, but none on Mondays and Tuesdays, with the exception of July 4, and Labor Day, both of which are on Mondays. In order to extend the season well into September, in the interests of horsemen shipping from California following the Inglewood meeting, two recesses of five days each, July 25 to July 29, and August 22 to August 26, are included in the schedule. Concurrent with the announcement of the Longacres dates, those for an eighteen-day meeting at Spokane were also released. They are from August 27 to September 18. While said dates conflict with those allotted Longacres, the two tracks are over 400 miles apart, which practically eliminates any element of competition.
